PHOENIX — When the Suns’ offense struggled to start the season, the team’s collective answer was that there was no reason for alarm, they were just missing shots they normally knock down.
Maybe they were right.
The Suns set a new season high for field goal percentage for the fourth straight game Sunday night and the Bucks [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Offense'
Phoenix Suns 109, Milwaukee Bucks 93 — Shooting daggers once again
January 8th, 2012 · 32 Comments
Tags: Channing Frye · Marcin Gortat · Milwaukee Bucks · Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Steve Nash
Phoenix Suns 102, Golden State Warriors 91 — Lid off the rim
January 2nd, 2012 · 27 Comments
PHOENIX — Through four and a half games of the NBA season, the Phoenix Suns were a jump shooting team that could not hit a jump shot.
A Suns team that has annually led the NBA in field-goal percentage entered the day shooting 40.2 percent from the floor, much to the dismay of head coach Alvin [...]
Tags: Golden State Warriors · Markieff Morris · Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Steve Nash
Preview: Phoenix Suns (0-2) at New Orleans Hornets (2-0)
December 30th, 2011 · 14 Comments
Phoenix Suns 93, New Orleans Hornets 78
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will hit the road for the first time this season in search of their offense and their first win of the season.
They will also get a shot at revenge in New Orleans after the Hornets knocked them off in the opener on Eric Gordon’s [...]
Tags: New Orleans Hornets · Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Preview
Philadelphia 76ers 103, Phoenix Suns 83 — Offensive offense
December 28th, 2011 · 36 Comments
PHOENIX — The 76ers throttled the Suns in US Airways Center for the second consecutive season days before New Year’s, but the two losses could not have been more different.
Last season’s defeat stemmed from a pitiful defensive effort that frustrated new center Marcin Gortat so much he spewed a verbal postgame rampage bemoaning the kind [...]
Tags: Offense · Philadelphia 76ers · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Steve Nash
New Orleans Hornets 85, Phoenix Suns 84 — No go-to player
December 26th, 2011 · 32 Comments
PHOENIX — Eric Gordon showed the Phoenix Suns how badly they need a go-to player in New Orleans’ 85-84 victory over the Phoenix Suns tonight in US Airways Center.
Gordon drilled a 20-foot jumper over the outstretched arms of Jared Dudley with four seconds left that ended up being the game winner after Markieff Morris threw [...]
Tags: Markieff Morris · New Orleans Hornets · Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Robin Lopez
External expectations for Phoenix Suns unusually low
December 23rd, 2011 · 24 Comments
The national media and computer projections sleeping on the Suns has become an annual tradition, but never have the predictions come in so low during the Nash era.
In years past the above statement meant picking the Suns just outside the playoffs or at the very bottom of the West playoff picture.
This year it means picking [...]
Tags: Free Agency · Marcin Gortat · Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Analysis




